EBOOK Ways of Structure Building

This volume addresses some of the most important approaches to the following key        questions in contemporary generative syntactic theory: What are the operations        available for (syntactic) structure-building in natural languages? What are the        triggers behind them? and Which constraints are involved in the operations?        Internationally recognised scholars and young researchers propose new answers on the        basis of detailed discussions of a wide range of phenomena        (Gapping,Right-Node-Raising, Comparative Deletion, Across-The-Board movement,        Tough-constructions, Nominalizations, Scope interactions, Wh-movement, A-movement,        Case and Agreement relations, among others). Their discussions draw on evidence from        a rich variety of languages, including Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian,        Croatian,English, German, Icelandic, Japanese, Spanish, Vata, and Vietnamese.The        proposals presented illustrate the shift in the locus of the explanation of        linguistic phenomena that characterizes contemporary linguistic theory: a shift, in        many cases, from a model which relies on properties of systems external to narrow        syntax (such as the Lexicon or the Phonetic Form component) to one which relies on        properties of the structure-building mechanisms themselves. The volume will interest        researchers and students of theoretical linguistics from advanced undergraduate        andabove.